Mountain Lines
Mouse-Ear Chickweed
by Nelson Haas
Staring at winter’s cold, bleak canvas of frozen white, I took artistic liberty to present a most common, yet little-known wildflower of late spring and summer that might warm your eye and awaken your mind to the coming seasons.
I couldn’t describe the plant any better than A. R. Harwood from his book: “British Wildflowers.”
“The common Mouse-ear is inconspicuous enough, and on account of its similarity to other Stitchworts, not so widely known as its distribution should require. It is almost everywhere a plant of the waste places, growing on open ground where the surface has been disturbed, not only in gardens, and around houses, farmyards, and kindred spots where weeds of cultivation accumulate, but in fields and along the wayside also.”